Rf transceiver having adaptive modulation

Title: Rf transceiver having adaptive modulation

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The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090161739, Rf transceiver having adaptive modulation.

What is claimed is:

1. A radio frequency (RF) transceiver having adaptive modulation, the RF transceiver comprises: an RF front-end operably coupled to convert a plurality of streams of outbound baseband signals into outbound RF signals and to convert inbound RF signals into a plurality of streams of inbound baseband signals; a baseband transmitter section including: an encoding module operably coupled to encode outbound data to produce encoded data; an interleaving module operably coupled to interleave the encoded data into a plurality of interleaved encoded data streams; a plurality of symbol mapping modules operably coupled to map, in accordance with a plurality of modulation control signals, the plurality of interleaved encoded data streams into a plurality of streams of symbols; a beamforming module operably coupled to multiplying the plurality of streams of symbols by a unitary beamforming matrix to produce a plurality of beamformed streams of symbols, wherein the unitary beamforming matrix are determined based on a multiple path channel estimation from a receiver feedback signal; and a plurality of inverse fast Fourier transform modules operably coupled to convert the plurality of beamformed streams of symbols from a frequency domain to a time domain to produce the plurality of streams of outbound baseband signals; and a modulation control module operably coupled to produce the plurality of modulation control signals, wherein the plurality of modulation control signals are determined based on the multiple path channel estimation.

2. The RF transceiver of claim 1, wherein the modulation control module functions to determine the plurality of modulation control signals by: receiving the receiver feedback signal from another RF transceiver; and determining, for each of the plurality of symbol mapping modules, a corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals based on a corresponding portion of the multiple path channel estimation from the receiver feedback signal.

3. The RF transceiver of claim 2, wherein the multiple path channel estimation comprises: a diagonalized channel (H) based on eigen beamforming using singular value decomposition, wherein H=UDV*, such that y=Hx+n=UDV*x+n, where U corresponds to the unitary de-beamforming matrix, V corresponds to the unitary beamforming matrix, V* corresponds to a conjugate of the unitary beamforming matrix, y corresponds to the plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols, x corresponds to the plurality of streams of symbols, and n corresponds to noise.

4. The RF transceiver of claim 3, wherein the determining, for each of the plurality of symbol mapping modules, a corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals comprises for a 2×N multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication: setting z=Vx; determining a conjugate of the unitary de-beamforming matrix multiplied by the plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols such that U*y=U*UDV*Vz+U*n=Dz+N, where D corresponds to a diagonal matrix of D=[s1 0;0 s2] and N corresponds to a noise power, and where s1 and s2 represent first and second signal components; determining signal to noise ratio (SNR) for each transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication, where SNR1=s12/N0, and SNR2=s22/N0;, where the SNR1 represents the SNR for a first transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication and the SNR2 represents the SNR for a second transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication; and determining the corresponding one of the plurality of modulated control signals based on at least one of the SNR1 and the SNR2.

5. The RF transceiver of claim 4, wherein the determining the corresponding one of the plurality of modulated control signals further comprises: determining a geometric mean for the SNR (SNRgeo) for each of the transmit paths of the MIMO wireless communication over subcarriers of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplex) frame of the MIMO wireless communication, where SNRgeo=prod(1+SNRi)1/(N-1); determining assigned bits (b) for the each of the transmit paths based on an Aslanis formula, where b=log2(1+SNR/G), where G corresponds to margin such that b1<=log2(1+SNRgeo1/G1) and b2<=log2(1+SNRgeo2/G2); and corresponding the assigned bits for the each of the transmit paths to a modulation convention to produce the corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals.

6. The RF transceiver of claim 5, wherein the corresponding the assigned bits for the each of the transmit paths to a modulation convention further comprises: limiting one of the assigned bits in accordance with bi=floor(log2(1+SNRgeoi/Gi)/2)*2 such that a maximum bi includes 8 bits/tone/stream; setting margin (G) to 0 dB; and equating a bi of 2 to a 4 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) modulation convention, a bi of 4 to a 16 QAM modulation convention, a bi of 6 to a 64 QAM modulation convention, and a bi of 8 to a 256 QAM modulation convention.

7. The RF transceiver of claim 1, further comprising: a baseband receiver section including: a plurality of fast Fourier transform modules operably coupled to convert a corresponding one of the plurality of streams of inbound baseband signals from a time domain to a frequency domain to produce a plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols; a de-beamforming module operably coupled to multiply the plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols by a unitary de-beamforming matrix to produce a plurality of streams of de-beamformed inbound baseband symbols; an equalizing module operably coupled to equalize the plurality of streams of de-beamformed inbound baseband symbols in accordance with a channel estimation to produce a plurality of streams of equalized de-beamformed inbound baseband symbols; a plurality of de-mapping modules operably coupled to demap the plurality of streams of equalized de-beamformed inbound baseband symbols in accordance with a plurality of demodulation control signals to produce a plurality of streams of inbound baseband signals; a deinterleaving module operably coupled to deinterleave the plurality of streams of inbound baseband signals to produce demodulated inbound baseband signals; and decoding module operably coupled to decode the demodulated inbound baseband signals from each of the plurality of baseband demodulating paths to produce inbound data.

8. A baseband transmit processing module, comprising: an encoding module operably coupled to encode outbound data to produce encoded data; an interleaving module operably coupled to interleave the encoded data into a plurality of interleaved encoded data streams; a plurality of symbol mapping modules operably coupled to map, in accordance with a plurality of modulation control signals, the plurality of interleaved encoded data streams into a plurality of streams of symbols; a beamforming module operably coupled to multiplying the plurality of streams of symbols by a beamforming matrix to produce a plurality of beamformed streams of symbols, wherein the beamforming matrix is based on a multiple path channel estimation from an RF receiver; and a plurality of inverse fast Fourier transform modules operably coupled to convert the plurality of beamformed streams of symbols from a frequency domain to a time domain to produce the plurality of streams of outbound baseband signals; modulation control module operably coupled to produce the plurality of modulation control signals based on the multiple path channel estimation from the RF receiver.

9. The baseband transmit processing module of claim 8, wherein the multiple path channel estimation from the RF receiver includes at least one of: a diagonalized channel (H) and a conjugate of a unitary beamforming matrix (V*).

10. The baseband transmit processing module of claim 9, wherein the modulation control module functions to produce the plurality of modulation control signals by: receiving the multiple path channel estimation from the RF transceiver; and determining, for each of the plurality of symbol mapping modules, a corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals based on a corresponding portion of the multiple path channel estimation.

11. The baseband transmit processing module of claim 10, wherein the diagonalized channel (H) is based on eigen beamforming using singular value decomposition, wherein H=UDV*, such that y=Hx+n=UDV*x+n, where U corresponds to a unitary de-beamforming matrix, V corresponds to a unitary beamforming matrix, V* corresponds to the conjugate of the unitary beamforming matrix, y corresponds to the plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols, x corresponds to the plurality of streams of symbols, and n corresponds to noise.

12. The baseband transmit processing module of claim 10, wherein the determining, for each of the plurality of symbol mapping modules, a corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals comprises for a 2×N multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication: setting z=Vx; determining a conjugate of the unitary de-beamforming matrix multiplied by the plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols such that U*y=U*UDV*Vz+U*n=Dz+N, where D corresponds to a diagonal matrix of D=[s1 0;0 s2] and N corresponds to a noise power and where s1 and s2 represent first and second signal components; determining signal to noise ratio (SNR) for each transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication, where SNR1=s12/N0, and SNR2=s22/N0;, where the SNR1 represents the SNR for a first transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication and the SNR2 represents the SNR for a second transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication; and determining the corresponding one of the plurality of modulated control signals based on at least one of the SNR1 and the SNR2.

13. The baseband transmit processing module of claim 12, wherein the determining the corresponding one of the plurality of modulated control signals further comprises: determining a geometric mean for the SNR (SNRgeo) for each of the transmit paths of the MIMO wireless communication over subcarriers of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplex) frame of the MIMO wireless communication, where SNRgeo=prod(1+SNRi)1/(N-1); determining assigned bits (b) for the each of the transmit paths based on an Aslanis formula, where b=log2(1+SNR/G), where G corresponds to margin such that b1<=log2(1+SNRgeo1/G1) and b2<=log2(1+SNRgeo2/G2); and corresponding the assigned bits for the each of the transmit paths to a modulation convention to produce the corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals.

14. The baseband transmit processing module of claim 13, wherein the corresponding the assigned bits for the each of the transmit paths to a modulation convention further comprises: limiting one of the assigned bits in accordance with bi=floor(log2(1+SNRgeoi/Gi)/2)*2 such that a maximum bi includes 8 bits/tone/stream; setting margin (G) to 0 dB; and equating a bi of 2 to a 4QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) modulation convention, a bi of 4 to a 16 QAM modulation convention, a bi of 6 to a 64QAM modulation convention, and a bi of 8 to a 256 QAM modulation convention.

15. A modulation control module comprises: at least one processing module; and memory operably coupled to the at least one processing module, wherein the memory stores operational instructions that causes the at least one processing module to: determine a multiple path channel estimation in response to an RF receiver feedback signal; determine a unitary matrix for beamforming for each transmit path of a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication based on the multiple path channel estimation; and determine, for each transmit path of the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication, a modulation control signal based on a corresponding portion of the multiple path channel estimation.

16. The modulation control module of claim 15, wherein the multiple path channel estimation includes at least one of: a diagonalized channel (H) and a conjugate of a unitary beamforming matrix (V*).

17. The modulation control module of claim 15, wherein the multiple path channel estimation comprises a channel characterization (H), wherein H=UDV*, such that y=Hx+n=UDV*x+n, where U corresponds to a unitary de-beamforming matrix, V corresponds to a unitary beamforming matrix, V* corresponds to a conjugate of the unitary beamforming matrix, y corresponds to a plurality of streams of received baseband symbols, x corresponds to the plurality of streams of transmitted baseband symbols, and n corresponds to noise.

18. The modulation control module of claim 17, wherein the memory comprises operational instructions that cause the at least one processing module to determine, for each transmit path, the modulation control signal for a 2×N multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication by: setting z=Vx; determining a conjugate of the unitary de-beamforming matrix multiplied by the plurality of streams of frequency domain inbound baseband symbols such that U*y=U*UDV*Vz+U*n=Dz+N, where D corresponds to a diagonal matrix of D=[s1 0;0 s2] and N corresponds to a noise power and where s1 and s2 represent first and second signal components; determining signal to noise ratio (SNR) for each transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication, where SNR1=s12/N0, and SNR2=s22/N0, where the SNR1 represents the SNR for a first transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication and the SNR2 represents the SNR for a second transmit path of the MIMO wireless communication; and determining the corresponding one of the plurality of modulated control signals based on at least one of the SNR1 and the SNR2.

19. The modulation control module of claim 18, wherein the memory comprises operational instructions that cause the processing module to determine the corresponding one of the plurality of modulated control signals by: determining a geometric mean for the SNR (SNRgeo) for each of the transmit paths of the MIMO wireless communication over subcarriers of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplex) frame of the MIMO wireless communication, where SNRgeo=prod(1+SNRi)1/(N-1); determining assigned bits (b) for the each of the transmit paths based on an Aslanis formula, where b=log2(1+SNR/G), where G corresponds to margin such that b1<=log2(1+SNRgeo1/G1) and b2<=log2(1+SNRgeo2/G2); and corresponding the assigned bits for the each of the transmit paths to a modulation convention to produce the corresponding one of the plurality of modulation control signals.

20. The modulation control module of claim 19, wherein the memory comprises operational instructions that cause the processing module to correspond the assigned bits for the each of the transmit paths to a modulation convention further comprises: limiting one of the assigned bits in accordance with bi=floor(log2(1+SNRgeoi/Gi)/2)*2 such that a maximum bi includes 8 bits/tone/stream; setting margin (G) to 0 dB; and equating a bi of 2 to a 4QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) modulation convention, a bi of 4 to a 16 QAM modulation convention, a bi of 6 to a 64QAM modulation convention, and a bi of 8 to a 256 QAM modulation convention.

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